Cyberbarf

Rating: 5/10 (5 November 2003)

What's happened to Danny Boyle? He seemed to be such a promising director. But this was a loooong time ago. Each one of his movie gets deeper and deeper into the trendy, boring mainstream.
So here it goes: overenhanced and overstylized pictures, frantic editing, gimmicky and trendy shots, distracting score and sound effects, cyberbarf storytelling. Been there, seen that. Next, please.
No emotions, no thrills, just trendy visuals, vaguely adequate acting and flashy editing. This is so mediocre.
I'm looking forward the ending of this senseless trend in moviemaking, that puts the emphasis on performance and totally forgets efficiency. Even recent mainstream blockbusters as X2, the Two Towers, Matrix Reloaded, Pirates of the Caribean, Harry Potter 2 all have at least SOME inner efficiency (not enough to my taste but well..), and don't rely entirely on gimmicky cyberbarf filmmaking. Studio executives seem to start to understand. They learn. Good for us.
But as long as people actually buy this vapid cyberbarf stuff, we'll keep on having movies like "28 days". Bad for us.
People wise up!